333:“primary sources”. Historians and archivists and Wikipedians may have varying understandings of the terminology." She also observes: "In the past most primary sources were not published or readily available, today they may be much more readily available online. It can just be more convenient to point people to the primary source." Can a distinction be made in terms of age and/or quantity and quality of scholarship around the matters described and represented by original material? Is it possible to use original diaries/manuscripts/letters to illustrate historical episodes or ways of thinking? These are questions we are keen to explore and about which to learn of others' views. It is certainly an area other library/archives institutions would do well to traverse, prior to beginning Knowledge editing.
415:, set up with a huge amount of volunteer time and donated photos, and administered out of Te Papa. NZ Birds Online was able to get permission to reproduce copyrighted pages from field guides, something Knowledge won't be able to negotiate. But it's going to be a struggle to keep the pages up to date as new research is published, the referencing is not especially good, and there's no easy way for the reader to fix mistakes and typos. Imagine if the time, money, and volunteer goodwill that produced NZ Birds Online had been harnessed and directed into improving the fairly-dire Knowledge pages on NZ birds instead.
209:: Sometimes it feels like we burden beginning Wikipedians with too many warnings. I was involved as a cheerleader and voluntary editor with the Dowse project, and heard what editors were concerned about at the start: rumours about the unwelcoming culture of Knowledge, and the idea that they had conflict-of-interest problems merely by being part of the art community. One of the first things they were told was to pick anonymous user names, for online safety! It'll be instructive for those considering a similar Knowledge project to hear what actually were the obstacles they had to face.
399:; the consensus is wikipedia cannot publish such articles. In terms of current quality, Knowledge does much better at basic facts, Te Ara does much better at critical evaluation; for example, Knowledge has biographies for almost every All Black who's ever played, but Te Ara does a much better job of describing the role of rugby in New Zealand culture. Te Ara also does a much better job of the biographies of those who have fallen from grace and disappeared from public life, which is something Knowledge is particularly poor at (think
285:: Speaking from the POV of someone who mainly edits art-related articles, publications older than 1970 may well come in useful - either as you say, to provide the original source for something discussed in a secondary source, or because - in New Zealand's limited art publishing sector - because no newer publication has been forthcoming. Also, with institutions like
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